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A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.
Date: 1 October 1784Reference: 10974i- Pictures
Two doctors quarreling while their patient deteriorates. Coloured engraving by I. Cruikshank, 1794.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 24 December 1794Reference: 11647i- Pictures
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A quack doctor treating her patient's chilblains. Engraving after H.B. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 26 December 1782Reference: 11814i- Pictures
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A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Williams, 1772, after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: Accor. to Act 10 June 1772Reference: 10783i- Pictures
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An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
Reference: 10970i- Pictures
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An emaciated patient protesting to his doctor, who is satisfied with his patient's demise. Watercolour.
Reference: 11224i- Pictures
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A disgruntled gouty man ringing a bell for his servant who is just leaving the room. Etching.
Reference: 10646i- Pictures
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A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776.Date: [1743?]Reference: 22165i- Pictures
Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon (?).
Nixon, John, -1818.Date: 2 December 1799Reference: 11637i- Pictures
A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Date: 12 April 1787Reference: 11211i- Pictures
A seated Greek woman on an obstetrical stool being held in position by her husband while giving birth aided by a midwife, another attendant dresses the first baby. Line engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Maréchal.
Maréchal, Nicolas, -1803.Date: 1801Reference: 16911i- Pictures
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A quack doctor assisting a voluptuous female patient with group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after J. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11828i- Pictures
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A man interrupting a doctor's misconduct with a young female patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson?, 1786.
Date: 1 January 1786Reference: 11735i- Pictures
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A doctor reprimanding an obese patient for not taking his medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1797.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 20 December 1797Reference: 11056i- Pictures
A stout ungainly man undergoing group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after S. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11829i- Pictures
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A young woman being instructed to dance by an older woman, both of them dressed in extreme fashions, while a foreign dancing master accompanies them on the violin. Engraving, 1771.
Date: Oct.19th 1771Reference: 35512i- Pictures
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A woman taking her baby from its cradle. Engraving.
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A generous physician refusing payment from a sick patient's wife. Stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1784, after E. Penny.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: 1 June 1784Reference: 21602i- Pictures
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A man, decrepit with gout, helpless in his own home. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10510i- Pictures
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A gouty man startled by death; represented as a skeletal figure wielding an arrow. Mezzotint, 1794.
Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 10737i- Pictures
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A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
Naiveu, Matthijs, 1647-1721.Date: [1700?]Reference: 44718i- Pictures
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A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Reference: 10743i- Pictures
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An ill man seated by a fireplace vomiting into a bowl. Pencil drawing.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 11884i- Pictures
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A gouty man savouring his feast. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after E.Y.
E.Y., active approximately 1830.Reference: 10511i- Pictures
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A patient forcing a doctor to take some of his own medicine. Coloured engraving, 1794.
Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 10972i